JRC adopts OA policy for scientific articles from January 2014 - January 7, 2014
The European Commission has announced unrestricted access to research results under Horizon 2020, the new EU funding programme to boost research and innovation, as of January 2014. In accordance with this new open access policy for scientific publications, JRC (Joint Research Centre) articles in peer-reviewed… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal – Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management - December 27, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of open access journal, Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery: Advanced Techniques and Case Management. Petra Klinge, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Neurosurgery has recently seen a… Read More
Two of the oldest German journals in Zoology opt for ‘platinum’ open access - December 23, 2013
Two of the oldest German journals in Zoology – Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift and Zoosystematics and Evolution – will join the journal publishing platform of Pensoft Publishers and adopt "platinum" open access beginning January 1, 2014. For Pensoft, "platinum" open access means not just that the articles… Read More
Nature Publishing Group and the Japan Society of Human Genetics announce 2014 launch of Human Genome Variation journal - December 19, 2013
Publisher Nature Publishing Group and the Japan Society of Human Genetics (JSHG) has announced the 2014 launch of Human Genome Variation, an online open access journal. The journal, a sister title to the Journal of Human Genetics, will go live on nature.com in 2014, and will… Read More
Elsevier to flip 7 subscription journals to Open Access in 2014 - December 18, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will flip seven established subscription journals to a gold open access model starting January 1, 2014. These titles include Physics Letters B and Nuclear Physics B as part of Elsevier's participation in the SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open… Read More
Sciedu Press launches International Journal of Diagnostic Imaging - December 16, 2013
Sciedu Press, a Canada-based research publication agency in Canada, has announced the launch of the International Journal of Diagnostic Imaging. Sciedu Press handles the promotion and publication of all scientific research and education. The goal is to spread and increase awareness of scientific knowledge all… Read More
Elsevier launches new OA journal – Operations Research Perspectives - December 10, 2013
STM publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of an open access journal - Operations Research Perspectives. Rubén Ruiz García of Universitat Politècnica València, Spain, will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Operations Research Perspectives is a new open access journal in the field of… Read More
New OA journal from the American Geophysical Union and Wiley publishes first articles - December 9, 2013
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and publisher Wiley have announced that Earth's Future, a new open access journal, has published its first group of articles. Created to reflect the risks and opportunities associated with environmental changes and challenges, the journal features primary research across disciplines… Read More
Wellcome Library signs up for new OA pilot project, Knowledge Unlatched - December 9, 2013
The Wellcome Library has signed up to a new open access pilot project, Knowledge Unlatched (KU). KU aims to make a collection of books, covering a wide range of humanities and social science topics, available on open access licenses through funding from hundreds of libraries. … Read More
SCOAP3 to begin January 1, 2014 - December 6, 2013
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has announced that the SCOAP3 Open Access publishing initiative will start January 1, 2014. With the support of partners in 24 countries, a vast fraction of scientific articles in the field of High-Energy Physics will… Read More
